Probate office helps woman seek her birth date
A couple visited the Probate Judge's office seeking their age records. The wife, maiden name Josephine Young, and a birth date of February 10, 1890 appeared in the record. A Greene-Ogdin-Caster reunion is set for August 15 at Columbia Chapel with a noon basket dinner and program, per Mary C Bolen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Aug
Laarning
Horton Brown
Brown Mak
Josephine Young
Columbia Chapel
Mary C Bolen
Roush Named Special Pomeroy Traffic Officer
Roush was appointed as special traffic officer in Pomeroy after resigning as marshal. Council approved his extra salary and a supplementary ordinance. Town funds included 1082 from the state gas tax share and 12536 from bricks sales and fines. Water plugs were deemed unusable until relocated, and Meigs Water Company offered a pressure gauge. Negotiations continued on purchasing the Pamunkey mine dump, owner New Pittsburgh Coal Company declining final terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Connell
Push
Rouss
Wee
Giert Webster
Hess
Council
Seaion
Meigs Water Company
Arequest
Pamunkey
New
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Hartford West Virginia Mine Lease Sparks Reopening
Reopening of the Hartford City mine in West Virginia is planned immediately after negotiations secured a ten year lease on the Hartford City coal lands. Senate figures and local trustees reportedly arranged the lease with Horace Smith, enabling restoration to full capacity and promising employment for area residents.
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Race Smith
Pomeroy
Hartford
Hartford City
Jacob Smith
A. Ia Binca
Hamtin
J . Garret
Hurricane, Wa
Horace B Land
Horace Smith
Smith
Basia Smith
Missionary Society honors anniversary at Middleport church
The Baptist Ladies Missionary Society met Tuesday with Mrs Tleda Hysell whose birthday month also marks thirty years in her primary church work. Fifty four attended as children visited her home and ice cream cones and a cake were shared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwinsionary Society
Sirs
Hyatt Middleport
Baptist Ladice’ Missionary Society
Mra Tleda Hysell
Hysell
Ladies of the Missionary Society
Just Growed Explains Pomeroy in Readers Letter
Readers letters from Columbus and Athens mock Pomeroy noting it “just growed” unlike planned cities. The exchange cites Philadelphia and Cincinnati as examples, praising Ohio’s Pomeroy while joking about its layout and street plan.
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Pomeroy
Columbus
Charlas Super
Athens
Poméroy
Messenger Watchdog
Philadelphia
Cincionada
Ind Valley
Ohio
Local notices from Jackson and Athens residents
Migs Marjorie Knowlton visited Misses Emilem and Chine Kuhner of Jackson last week. Ralph Darst 49n is in Sheltering Arms Hospital Athens after injuries from an automobile accident. Mrs Magrie Swearingen and her father 38 Dudgeon were visiting in Athens recently.
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Roscoe Fowler
RHM Grogan
Grogan
George Junkerman
Sugar Grove
A Z Junkerman
Grant Street
Della Bishop
C. J. Marcum
Oak Ell W
Dana Jones Toledo
Mark Tonen
Rochell
T A May
Seaman
CG Wonnder
Thelma Hooper
Dick Wiley
Crookeville
Fred Gardner
Miss Hooper
Wiley
Alberta
Elizabeth Ebert
Orient
Clyde French
Lucy Grant Boggess
E. M. McCarty
New Salem
H. B. Hobart
Akron
A. Calderwood
Nella Calderwood
June Lansbury
Charleston
Batty Dent
George Achaef
John Schaaf
Pomeroy
Cleveland
C. F. Bradbury
Farmers Landing
Cheahira
W. EB. Russell
Magnetic Springs
Mar
Reveesll
the Springs
George Swallow
Columbus
Carpenter News
Marjorie Knowlton
Emilem
Chine Kuhner
Jackson Lai
Banda Carpenter Hig
Nye Bingham
Toledoxan
EA McCallard
Mra Nany
Ralph Darst
Mre
Frink Darst
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Athens
Sunda
Magrie Swearingen Athens
Dudgeon
Mra
Dana Han'ny
Former welfare worker recalls misery in small towns
Mrs Julian Jones, a former Chester Township resident connected with Columbus welfare work, reports stark cases of poverty in nearby towns. She recalls a nude mother aided by no one, an old couple in poverty with money hidden behind a chair, a basement find of a starving mother and dying infant, and a junk collector helping a sick man while charity is misused for liquor and personal gain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Aug
Thia
Julian Jones
Chester Township
Columbus
Wen
Kate
Mra Jones
Piled Endless Hunger and Charity Shapes Rural Outlook
Fragmented items note Mrs Jones contrasting rural wealth with city poverty and urge moral reflection. Briefs mention Edward Keiser of Oberlin visiting, Ashworth and Bissell family travel, Williamson family relocation to the Old Inn, and Mrs A W Timmondz's return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pomeroy
Edward Keiser
Oberlin
Ohio
Keiser
Mra Nettie Wisecarver
E Ashworth
O H Bissell
Mr Bissell
Jasonville
Phil Williamson
O L Bradbury
Mechanic Avenue
Old Inn
Main Street
Butternut Avenue
W Timmondz
Initiation of Forty Women in Carl ile Ladies of Columbia
Forty women initiated during a ceremony in Columbus under the Carl ile Ladies of Columbia at the fifteenth triennial convention. Sixteen newcomers hailed from London.
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Columbus
Carlile Ladies of Columbia
London
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Phone
Roush
W. Va
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Syracuse Beach
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Powiral
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Methodist Church
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W G Gravely
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Ohio River
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Sherbet
Cline
the Cline Ice Cream Co
Silk Sox
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